I received my first rejection today and I'm ready for more!

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Solivagant

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Ready for more submissions that is, not rejections.

I sent a micro-fiction piece to strange horizons and at sixty days today I got a form rejection. I can't say I'm surprised. It was a micro-fiction story that came in at under two hundred words. I wrote it in third person present, so it was definitely a strange little story. Again, not something I truly expected to be accepted.

This is a good thing though. Had It been accepted I would have been overjoyed, but I had submitted it more to show myself I could do it then anything else.

I've sent out several other submissions as I waited for the response for this one, much better ones in my opinion, and when I finally get that acceptance letter I'll know it'll be all the sweater!
 
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It's nice to know you don't consider that first rejection a crushing blow but are ready to submit more work. Way to be!

Maryn, shaking your hand
 

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I hope you've been writing a long time. Because, that's what it takes to be published.
 

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My first acceptance was all the sweater, too. Red lamb's wool with crystal bugle beads at the collar and cuffs. ;)

But seriously. Keep all the rejections for that big bonfire you'll host at the height of your career.
 

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Write, write, write. Submit, submit, submit. I must have gotten at least a hundred rejections over a period of five years before the first acceptance came, and man was it sweet. Keep at it. And keep up that attitude. It'll serve you very, very well.
 
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